Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Mode l.) 1- J. ANDERSON.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE. 7

No. 350,284. Patented Oct. 5 1886.

the hanger.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ANDERSON, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

TWC-WHEELEI? VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,284, dated October 5, 1886. Application filed August 16, 1886. Serial No. 210,996. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ANnnRsoN, of Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Methods of Attaching the Seats of Two-Wheeled Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to improvements in the method of attaching the seat of that kind of two-wheeled vehicle usually called a sulky or road cart.

The object of myimprovements is to pro vide a method of securing the seat of a twowheeled vehicle which shall render the seat readily adjustable and easy-riding. I attain these objects in the way illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the seat secured in position. Fig. 2 shows the fastenings which secure the semi-elliptical spring to the axle, separated so as to show distinctly the individual parts. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the foot-piece. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the seat separated from the vehicle.

Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The seat 1 is provided with the braces or rods 2 2. Said rods are secured to the center of the semi-elliptical spring 3 by the clips 4. The semi-elliptical spring 3 is secured at each end by a swinging link to a hanger, 5.

The method of'securing the hanger 5 to the axle is as follows: Said hanger is placed on the axle near the spindle, the under surface, 11, 0f the pedestal coming in contact with'the upper surface of the axle and the elevated port-ion 16 of the hanger toward the center, as shown in Fig. 1. The thills are then secured in place, the surface 12, Fig. 2, coming in contact with the upper surface, 10, of the pedestal of the hanger, and the screwshanks 7 coming on each side of the axle and thepedestal 1O 11 of The surfaces 12 and 10 should be respectively convex and concave, so that the hanger will be prevented from moving along on the axle. The foot-piece 9 is then placed on, the screw-shanks 7 passing through the holes 14. The nuts 8 are then screwed onto the shanks 7, forcing and holding the footpiece firmly up against the under side of the axle and securing the hanger firmly in place. An ordinary metal strap or rod having holes to receive the screw-shanks 7 may obviously be substituted for the foot-piece without departing from my invention. The brace or rod 13 is fastened tothe thills in the usual manner.

17 is a metal spring, secured to the arms 22 22 by a screw, 21, and a clip, 20, near the end of said spring which is toward the seat. At the loose end of the spring 17 is turned the eye 18. The elasticity of the fastening of the arms 22 to the cross piece 15 can be made greater or less by placing the clip 20 nearer to or farther from the screw 21. The arms'22 22 are secured to the cross-piece 15 of the thills by an L-shaped staple, l9,which passes through the eye 18 on the spring 17.

Having fully described my invention, what I wish to claim and secure by Letters'Patent 1s V l. The combination of the thills provided with the screw shanks 7, the foot-piece 9, nuts 8, and a hanger or goose-neck for supporting the spring above the axle, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of a spring-support, 5, having a base provided with a concave surface, and a clip having its surface convex to fit the concavity of the base of the spring-support, substantially as shown and described.

3. Thecombination ofthe spring 17, having an eye, 18, turned in the end thereof, the clip 20, screw 21, andL-shaped staple 19, constituting a fastening for the arms 22, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

JOSIAH B. FROST, A. A. Ln CLEVE. 

